Megan Thee Stallion stood earlier than a federal jury in Miami Thursday morning to confront Milagro Gramz, the blogger she says has tormented her for years with false claims and damaging content material tied to the 2020 capturing involving Tory Lanez.
The Grammy-winning rapper testified in her defamation lawsuit in opposition to Gramz, also referred to as Milagro Cooper. The trial has peeled again layers of on-line harassment, alleged coordination with Lanez’s household and the circulation of a doctored specific video that Gramz admitted she believed was actual.
“She mentioned she felt the responsible verdict vindicated her, however mentioned afterwards that the hatred turned louder,” referencing Lanez’s conviction and 10-year sentence for capturing Pete in July 2020.
As Megan Thee Stallion left the courthouse tonight, @papillonsocial1 requested what she needs different bloggers to learn about their conduct on-line.
“Simply because you will have freedom of speech doesn’t imply you will have freedom to bully,” Megan mentioned.
She continues testifying tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/wOBdeXZct7
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) November 20, 2025
Megan Thee Stallion described the aftermath as a interval of emotional {and professional} fallout, worsened by Gramz’s on-line assaults. The courtroom was proven X-rays of bullet fragments lodged in Megan Thee Stallion’s foot, which required surgical procedure.
As she spoke in regards to the capturing, Megan Thee Stallion grew visibly emotional, telling jurors she nonetheless attends remedy and infrequently looks like “nobody cared that she was shot.”
“Everyone thought that I deserved to get shot as a result of I speak about intercourse and I twerk and I drink,” she testified, in response to reporter Meghann Cunifh.
The trial, which started earlier this week, revealed that Milagro Gramz acquired greater than $3,000 in digital funds from Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, between October 2020 and March 2022.
The transactions, which ranged from $200 to $1,000, coincided with Milagro Gramz’s public protection of Lanez and her repeated makes an attempt to discredit Pete.
Textual content messages offered in courtroom confirmed Gramz promising Lanez that an “unique story would change her life” in September 2020. She additionally visited Lanez and his father in Miami in February 2022, the place she promoted his “Cap” music video.
When referred to as to the stand, Milagro Gramz admitted she believed a sexually specific deepfake video of Meg was genuine when she shared it together with her viewers.
Below Florida legislation, distributing non-consensual specific content material, even when believed to be actual, can carry each legal and civil penalties.
Gramz’s lawyer, Jeremy McLymont, argued she was merely expressing her opinion, saying she referred to as Megan Thee Stallion a liar “as a result of Megan lied.”
However Megan Thee Stallion’s authorized workforce identified Milagro Gramz had no direct data of the capturing and refused to call her sources in courtroom.
On the stand, Gramz additionally mentioned the funds from Lanez’s father have been for “private causes, together with birthday items for her kids and promotional work for Peterson’s podcast and e book.”
However the timeline of these funds aligned intently together with her anti-Megan content material.
The lawsuit accuses Gramz of performing as a “paid surrogate” for Lanez, working to “denigrate, belittle, insult, and unfold false statements about Ms. Pete on her on-line social media platforms, for no different purpose than to bully, harass and punish Ms. Pete for Mr. Peterson’s conviction and to tarnish her status, inflicting emotional misery.”
Court docket filings additionally revealed that Milagro Gramz deleted 1000’s of messages and eliminated WhatsApp from her telephone, in violation of a courtroom preservation order. The decide instructed jurors they might assume the deleted materials would have harmed Gramz’s protection.
Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys argued the harassment marketing campaign price her vital profession alternatives, together with a possible partnership with Google.
Meg is looking for damages for cyberstalking, emotional misery, false mild invasion of privateness and the distribution of altered sexual imagery.
“Simply because you will have freedom of speech doesn’t imply you will have freedom to bully,” Megan instructed reporters leaving the courthouse in a clip captured by reporter Cunfih.
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